Hawaii contains eight schools that offer MSN programs. University of Hawaii at Manoa, the highest-ranking MSN school in HI, has a total student population of 20,435 and is the 282nd highest ranked school in America.
Of the 8 MSN schools in Hawaii, only 1 has a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, University of Phoenix-Hawaii Campus comes out as the most expensive ($25,566/yr), with Kauai Community College as the lowest recorded at only $2,452/yr.
MSN students from Hawaii schools who go on to become computer engineers, computer and information scientists, computer support specialists, computer programmers, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 338,890 people working as network and computer systems administrators alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $70,930. Also, Computer programmers make on average $74,690 per year and there are about 367,880 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Hawaii alone, there are 830 employed computer programmers earning an average yearly salary of $64,010. Network and computer systems administrators in this state earn $64,340/yr and there are 910 employed.
Also, within the MSN schools in Hawaii, the average student population is 3,134 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 17 to 1. Aside from MSN, there are 704 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 1,845 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $3,000, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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